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 of dung at Michaelmas, the time that you'll be master here?

I will, by the elements and stars of night.

Then we'll not say a word of the old fellow, the way Pegeen won't know your story till the end of time.

And if he chances to return again?

We'll swear he's a maniac and not your da. I could take an oath I seen him raving on the sands to-day. (Girls run in.)

Come on to the sports below. Pegeen says you're to come.

The lepping's beginning, and we've a jockey's suit to fit upon you for the mule race on the sands below.